Webits Guide
Webits
Temporary email address (lasts only 10 minutes) lets you sign up on sites which require an email, but you don’t then receive the spam.
10 x 10 views, all the way from the Milky Way down to quarks.
Visual dictionary using 80 million images of all the English nouns arranged via semantic meaning.
Sinc your computer’s time with what it really is (to within 1 second local time).
is a French language image-blog with thousands of scanned illustrations, mostly from mid-20th century French schoolbooks, educational material, magazines, and ephemera.
Gallery of algebraic surfaces and their formulas.
Type in your question and the site will check dictionaries, encyclopedias and Wikipedia.
Helps to both narrow and broaden your search
Voice of the Hive is a site that features stories told from the beekeepers perspective, as well as the bees perspective.
Find most anything in the Bible here.
Find your birthday star at the Joint Astronomy Centre; that is, a star that was born the year you were, and whose light has just reached earth. Mine is 99 Herculis in the Historia Coelisties Britanica at celestial coordinates (J2000 equinox).
Online blackmail for the masses, at Extortr.
Discover the wisdom of mankind, and share it.
Niche-rific YouTube for thrill-ers, I guess.
Who shares your birthday? I found out Sir Winston Churchill, Virgil of ancient, and Ferggie all share my birthday.
Very active online community.
Left brained? Right Brained? Take the test…
The place to go for passwords to online media sites which require subscriptions, when you only just want to read the article, anyway.
Calculate the number of calories you burn for each activity
If God loves your brand, it will become stronger.
How to clean most anything.
“Convert just about anything to anything else” (5000 units and 50000 conversions).
Weird Converter
Height/length and weight conversions.
Convert just about anything into just about anything else on their site, then download.
Need help generating some gibberish to fill out that layout?
Lists of oxymorons and humorous thoughts to ponder.
Free tools that let writers, artists, scientists and educators mark their work with the freedoms they want them to carry.
Do you really know who people are?
Inglehart-Welzel cultural map of the world depicts cultural values on just two axis; traditional-secular/rattional (Y) and survival-self expression values.
Mathematical equations yielding classic curves.
Data and graph fanatics now have a home of their own.
Source of 25 desktop apps available for free online.
Source lists free directory assistance number.
Enpsychlopedia is a resource of disorders.
Send faxes for free.
Share large files with friends; pictures, music, etc.
Pie charts of colors proportional to colors of flags from around the world.
Satellite and aerial imagery of the earth in flash.
dý1? any text by simply typing in what you want flipped.
Virtual Roadside randomly generates your very own personalized fortune.
Forget the film, watch the titles.
As the name implies, film titles as art worth watching.
Everything from free will templates to free legal advice for child custody.
Blog with links to other blogs for freelance illustrators, designers, writers, programmers, etc.
Clock based on Flikr images…interesting.
Send an email to the future. Loads of possibilities, from reminders to self to predictions that others can be “on the look out” for.
Records your email as you type it, and then “retypes” it for those you send it to.
The brain is a use-it-or-lose- it proposition - which is all the excuse you need to spend some time here playing memory, logic, and strategy games like Reversi, Crime Scene, Sudoku, What Was There, etc.Government Innovations
(through the John F. Kennedy School of Governance at Harvard University) is a source of documents, news stories, multimedia, awards, and upcoming events about ideas that are working for better service to their communities.
Site alphabetizes phone numbers by company, and then gives pertinent info for each.
It doesn’t have to be April 1st to enjoy history’s top hoaxes, college pranks or the photo gallery.
A searchable site where you can determine how many of the 300,000,000 people in the U.S. share your name.
Database of 800 numbers and the corresponding prompts to actually speak to a human (so you don’t have to go through what I just had to…)
How to wrap presents
How to Tie Knots
How To Tie A Tie
How to hack an elevator and make it an express
How to hack a soda machine
How to remove a cork trapped in a wine bottle
How to cut glass with a scissors
How to open a bottle of beer with a piece of paper
How to train a cat to operate a light switch
How to shuffle poker chips like the pros
How to make Silly Puddy
How to solve a Rubiks Cube - Part 1
How to solve a Rubiks Cube - Part 2
How to solve a Rubiks Cube - Faster
How to swing a golf club like Tiger Woods
Audio of someone pranking a telemarketer is rather funny.
What 4 made up “house rules” contribute the most to making Monopoly take so long to play, and how to win.
IconBuffet has icons,
Searchable database, plus fun facts, timelines, biographies, etc.
Take the intelligence test if you’re curious (caveat beware: it’s not easy).
Incuby is an online community for inventors to get exposure for their inventions.
The best of rec.humor.funny, about 2,ooo jokes culled from many thousands gathered from 1987-1992.
Home of how to’s across a wide spectrum, from food to auto to the arts.
Site rates lawyers on performance criteria, and helps you find the right legal help.
Library of Congress podcasts; such as End of European Colonial Empires, Robert E. Lee, and 1507 Waldseemuller World Map.
Video tutorials for twenty magic tricks.
Email backup and storage
Game mixing aspects of the popular game ‘Tetris’ and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location.
National Geographic Flashback - pics from yesteryear; Trunk Show, Turtle Riding, Cooking with Fresh Verbs, Atrists Palette, Man-Size Appetite.
Wayfaring enables you to make your own personalized maps.
Collective wisdom site let’s you predict future events and make money.
“The tourist map of movies” lets you find like movies to ones you already know you like…
Download maps of subways from London to New York.
Where countries are reconfigured based on your usage data.
A site with film clips from movies that feature mathematics.
Source helps you calculate the chances that if something can go wrong, it will (utilizing new mathematical formula).
Behind The Name is a site with the etymology of first names.
A statistician’s dream; the massive database let’s you compare nations and generate maps and graphs.
Random name generator lets you remain incognito.
A new news service that’s a quick, graphic snapshot of the news and a way to dig deeper for images, audio, video, and links to the best sources.
Simulation meets political cartooning.
Nobel prize winners and articles by the laureates.
The Non-verbal Dictionary of gestures, signs and body language cues.
Prodigy.net helps you relate to really big numbers.
Sunlight Foundation resource links to open government records
Source of news and jaundiced views of America’s more questionable laws, regulations and court decisions.
Site will help you generate secure passwords; good luck remembering them.
Large compendium of rules to most any card game on the planet.
Periodic Table of the Internet
So, exactly what does your phone number spell?
Wiki entry; the Harding Test; video demo of the Harding FPA.
MediaSift’s Guide to podcast directories can help feed your addiction to podcasts.
Loaded with homebrewed programming: site counts down the Top 10 and Top 50 Podcasts of the Month
Quite large collection of links to sites that are as the name suggests, but amusing nonetheless.
What used to be OK, but now isn’t.
Frank’s compulsive list of postal addresses.
Outercourt blog map based on “According to Google, people in the world are known for…”
Puzzles, riddles, IQ tests, Sodoku, romance, career…
Major religions of the world ranked by adherents.
Tutorials on recognizing irony, crafting sarcastic remarks, rants on pet peeves, and more…
Type in a cell phone number and it will show a satellite image of where that phone is at this time.
The Scrabble word finder; type in your/your opponents tiles and it’ll help you find the words.
Quintura - helps you search by categorizing common search terms on the right hand side of the page with a cloud of related terms on the left; then click on one of the cloud items and it modifies your search results.
Simply enter in the two zip codes and your parcel’s weight, and it’ll show you competitive rates from all major parcel carriers.
Suggestion box kind of place where anyone (thinkers and tinkerers alike) shares what they think will make something or someone or someplace (or whatever) better.
Animated gifs of sign language.
Debunkers can find videos, articles, podcasts, and more, casting doubts on all sorts of controversial subjects, from UFOs and ESP to psychic healing and the existence of God.
An extensive index of urban legends, common fallacies, old wives’ tales, strange news stories, rumors, trashy gossip, and more.
Have you ever wondered if you were hearing a spring field cricket, a fall field cricket, a striped ground cricket or, I know, it was a Carolina ground cricket…plus cicadas and katydids, of course.
Everything from dogs barking to factory noises.
SoundSnap is a site for sharing free sound bites and sounds.
Free online sound library (and sharing site).
Mashable put together this list of 20+ sporting social networks; Whatever sport you’re into - walking, golf, fishing, football, biking, NASCAR, cricket, etc. - Mashable helps you find an online community of equally avid fans to chat with.
Neatorama’s “The Origins of State Names”.
It’s all about the whole cycle of production to consumption - a linear system on a finite planet. The resource section of her site has two pdf’s documenting her claims.
Tackles burning questions from “Where have all the fireflies gone?” to “Did Mussolini use castor oil as an instrument of torture?”
2 minute video of a French stuntman and some of his incredible work.
Online game that uses Flikr photos for Sudoku fans.
Create your own start page for browsing the internet. Add, delete, configure to your heart’s content. Since we all browse uniquely, here’s a way to customize the way you, and only you, start your surfing.
AT&T’s text to speech generator (great demo).
8 Strategies to think like Einstein.
Online tool to take screen shots of any website; ideal for presentations, documentations, visualizations, or your web page.
Illustrations of major tie knots, step by step.
Take the typing test to find out how fast you can type.
Cabinet magazines expanded timeline of timelines.
Simple, free online list application that can be shared with anyone.
Content free site; like Wikipedia, except it isn’t at all like Wiki. Much nonesense to laugh at, and lose an hour or two over.
A huge depository of units of measurement.
The official Web portal for the U.S. government, with links to every branch, agency and organization involved in federal business, plus reports, guides, reference material and other resources to help you navigate the system, and, whenever possible, get things done online.
Videostored offers free online videos and film.
This is a how to site with the tag “Life Explained”; no long articles, just video. All the video content is written, reviewed, and produced by experts and professionals to ensure that the information and advice is factual.
Ranks your address on a scale of 0-100 based upon how “walkable” it is to schools, restaurants, shops and the like.
Top 100 most viewed pages in Wikipedia over the last 30 days.
All about what’s being edited on Wikipedia right now.
The key, it appears, is to locate your Payday loan business by triangulating the proximity of liquor stores, pawn shops, and gun shops.
A clickable atlas; includes maps, flags and geography.
Leonardo da Vinci used to write mirror style, left to right, when making notes. Now you can too
Look them up, then enter them here. Now, let’s get ourselves a map. Let’s get the skinny on the demo’s. Or try here for a bit nicer presentation. Of course, it’d be interesting to learn how to market to them based on lifestyles as well.
Free online office tools
Free online phone data backup service that allows you to store, manage, share, and access mobile data online.